ANSEL ADAMS

BY: ANGIE ALANIZ

 ADAMS
• ANSEL EASTON ADAMS WAS BORN ON THE
20TH OF FEBRUARY 1902, IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
• ONLY CHILD OF CHARLES HITCHCOCK AND
OLIVE BRAY.
• BEST KNOWN FOR HIS NATURE
PHOTOGRAPHY, THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD
WAR II DREW HIS EYE TO AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT TOPIC.
 CHILDHOOD

• ANSEL WAS JUST 4 YEARS OLD WHEN SAN

FRANCISCO WAS STRUCK BY THE GREAT
EARTHQUAKE OF 1906. AND BROKE HIS NOSE,
IT WAS SO SEVERE THAT IS WOULD BECOME A
REMARKABLE FEATURE ON HIS FACE.
• BY THE AGE 18, HE DECIDED HE WOULD
MAKE IT A PROFESSION AND BEGAN A PATH
TO BECOMING A CONCERT PIANIST. LATER HE
STARTED AN INTEREST ON PHOTOGRAPHY. San Francisco earthquake 1906
 CAREER

• ADAMS’S FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS WERE PUBLISHED IN

1921, AND BEST’S STUDIO BEGAN SELLING HIS
YOSEMITE PRINTS THE NEXT YEAR.
• ADAMS LOVED TO TAKE HIKES EACH DAY TO A NEW
AND BEAUTIFUL CAMPSITE, HE WOULD TAKE
ADVANTAGE AND TAKE SOME PHOTOS
• ADAMS WENT ON AND OPENED THE ANSEL
GALLERY FOR THE ARTS. HE ALSO TAUGHT AND
LECTURES AND WORKED ON ADVERTISING
ASSIGNMENTS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA.
• HE WAS AN UNREMITTING ACTIVIST FOR
THE CAUSE OF WILDERNESS AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
• OVER THE YEARS HE ATTENDED
INNUMERABLE MEETING AND WROTE
THOUSANDS OF LETTERS IN SUPPORT OF
HIS CONSERVATION PHILOSOPHY TO NEWS
PAPER EDITORS, SOCIETY COLLEAGUES, AND
POLITICIANS.
• HOWEVER, HIS INFLUENCE CAME FROM HIS
PHOTOGRAPHY.
• HIS IMAGES BECAME THE SYMBOLS, THE
VERITABLY ICONS, OF WILD AMERICA.
• ADAMS JOINED PHOTOGRAPHS DOROTHEA
LEANGE AND WALKER EVENS IN THEIR
COMMITMENT TO AFFECTION SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL CHANGE THROUGH ART.
• AFTER THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE
PEOPLE DURING WORLD WAR II
• ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHED LIFE IN THE CAMPS
FOR A PHOTO ESSAY ON WARTIME
INJUSTICE.
• WEEKS BEFORE THE ATTACK ON PEARL
HARBOR IN 1941, ADAMS SHOT A SCENE
OF THE MOON RISING ABOVE VILLAGE.
Ansel Adams photographs
ANSEL ADAMS DIED FROM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ON APRIL 22, 1984, IN THE INTENSIVE-CARE
AT THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, AT AGE 82.